Grace Is Kicked Out – Big Brother 7
Grace Adams-Short became the fourth housemate evicted from Big Brother 7 in yet another no-shock
result on Friday night. Grace polled 87.9% of votes in a head-to-head with Nikki Grahame, who survived
eviction for two consecutive weeks.
It was such a no-contest that host Davina McCall didn’t even bother with her usual customary pause and
instead immediately announced that Grace was evicted.
Both Grace and Nikki were put up for eviction by newcomer Suzie Verrico as the model was the only
contestant able to nominate during week four. Grace had take offence to being nominated by Suzie and
threw a glass of water over her before she left the house.
With one final hug for Mikey, Grace left the house to a chorus of boos from the eviction night crowd but
took it on the chin, laughing and even encouraging the pantomime-esque booing.
When later asked why she performed such a childish act she replied: “Sorry guys, I just couldn't help
myself. She was just sat there like Lady Muck”.
Grace had been favourite to leave all week and had been odds-on well before her nomination was
confirmed. One of the reasons she was trading so low was due to the Big Brother twist that only Suzie
would be eligible to nominate and she had made her dislike of Grace known publicly before she entered
the house.
Grace was as short as 1/2 on Friday 9 June following the chants of “Get Grace Out!” heard clearly during
Sam’s eviction, although she had risen to as large as 5/6 by the morning of Monday 11.
Big Brother even gave Grace a chance to earn immunity from nominations when a task was set early in
the week. The housemates had to stand still on a podium for as long as possible, with a “mystery prize”
awaiting the last person standing. During the task, Grace’s price had reached 2/1 to be evicted fourth as
she appeared determined to see the task through.
After nine hours, Glyn and Mikey gave up, leaving Lisa and Grace to draw straws to determine the
winner as boredom set in. Lisa drew the longest straw and was rewarded with a prize of being immune
from nominations. Grace’s failure to win the immunity saw her price plummet to 1/2 even though
nominations were yet to be announced.
When the nominations were announced on Tuesday 13 June, Grace was a short as 1.05 on the betting
exchanges, then 1.03 and even as low as 1.02 by Wednesday in what appeared to be a certain eviction.
Nikki was available at 33/1 and even 50/1 by comparison.
The bookmakers were also not keen on opening a “How much percentage of the vote will Grace receive”
market as at least 85% also looked likely and could even beat the record 86% two-way vote record held
by Stuart from Big Brother II and Vanessa from Big Brother V.